The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-05-21
INVENTORS AND INVENTIONS.
How Their Practicability and Irnprac-
ticability are Thoroughly Tested.

From the Mem York Fleming Sun.
SIS this where inventors ideas are put into
practical shape;'
Eyes, this is were it is done,n said c. B.
Morse, whose eyrie is on the top story of the
building, Franklin and Centre streets.
The reporter saw some very queer de-
vices, with worlsmen in greasy caps and
overalls busily at work filling and punching
iron and steel, and twisting or chiselling
this or that part to make it fit. He came to
the conclusion that he had struck the
ground floor of inventions that were des-
tined to be either great successes or great
failures.
Other men, evidently not connected with
the establishment, were standing at the ell
bows of the workmen watching closely the
result of the application of file or a punch.
There was an air of absorbing interests
about them, as if the fate Of q beloved child
hung in the balance. Thought was evident
lp searching for its materiaized body and
Il deepened largely on the power of the in
yentor to impart his idea to the workman,
and on the receptive power of the workman
coupled with the skill to mold and shape
the metals, whether success or failure was
ahead.
1.-The vast majority of inventors" said
the manager, "are men of good ideas, but
They come to us with their ideas. Most of them
get their patents sometimes without having
any working model, and unable to even test
their ideas i'll the most preliminary way.
We look into the ideas, and according as we
Judge them practical or the reverse we ex-
pertinent with them or reject them. have
turned away as many as three new inven-
tions day because | considered them i'm
practicable refusing to take the inventors
money to work them out. About one-half
of all that come here are impracticable
or if practicable would be worth
nothing to the public We have
had inventors get very angryO because
we wouldn't let them go on and spend money
In trying to work out what we believed,
from practical experience of forty years,
could not be a success
what is the trouble generally?"
Zone great trouble is, that an inventor is
not a complete being. He lacks his practi-
cal half. and it is not until he finds that other
half of him that he goes ahead Another
trouble is, that they don't fully explain
their invention for fear somebody will steal
it. so the experinenter has to work largely
In the dark"
$50 men are in waiting to steal other peo-
pies brains, are they"
sob, yes. There are so many vacuumS
that if an idea once gets loose it is gobbled
up in a fash One great trouble with in
ventors as to the development of their in
inventions lies in the fact that very few of
them have any capital. They need that
and a partner of a practical cast of mind. "
'How is it when they sell outY'
'Well, an inventor hardly ever gets much
for an incomplete invention if sold out
plump If he sells for royalty he gener-
ally gets cheated. No matter how high the
firm stands that contracts to pay royalty,
it nets him very little, even when it brings
large sums into the FIRMS Golfers. Ii there
is being upon the earth that deserves SYM
pathy and help it is, the poor inventor. If
it were not for him mankind would scarcely
have clothes to cover them"
'Do you know any that have got richp'
"Heres one | knew years ago, when he
was well off. He is now poor. He has ex-
pended all his money. His ideas are good,
but so far they have not been largely sue
ceseful, and he is selling other peoples in
ventions while perfecting his own. 1 have
known great many that came here poor
and have become rich. There, for instance,
is Howe Henever succeeded till Singer took
hold and made fortune and all Howe had
out of it was his royalty on the eye of the
needle After he got started and got
practical man with him, he made great
fortune. But he went around vainly beg
ging for help for two years. He got his
merited success at last, but there is many a
man rolling in luxury to-day that bought
with the outcome of stolen brains, while the
rightful owner is starving"
"Where do these embryo inventions come
from"
"From all over. Here is one from Texas.
A publisher came up with an idea for ex-
tinguishing kerosene lamps without turning
them down or blowing them out. 1t has
developed into that bulb and tube. The
pressure of finger puts out the light. 1t is
now success, but he had got his patent and
couldn't make it CO."
"What is that with slender arms of
steele"
"a man came from California with an
idea Of an electric gaslighter i'll his head. He
couldn't dress it in steel, but there it is. Put
your thumb on that lever and you light that
gas burner. Electricity is created without
a battery 1t is static electricity. 1t can
be made to reach to any required height,
and it will work hundred years"
What is thatF
THAT is the result of years of toll and
experiment. 1t is a new discovery by New
Yorker in metal. 1t is a dense cast-iron,
which has firm crystal texture, like steel.
The porosity and unsoundneSs of iron cast
lngs are prevented. tits common cast-iron,
rs fine as steel, and has made sensation.
One firm has had thousands of dies made
from itn
rs that other the sameN'
metallic glass, now being tested on
the One Hundred Twenty-fifth street
and Ninth avenue cable road 1t
is hard as a diamond, and dia-
mond won't touch it, 1t is as smooth as
glass. 1t is cast in any form, the same as
cast-lron. 1t comes from the same melting
as the last invention. Each ladleful taken
from the cupola can be treated to produce
dliferent quality of metal.
This is an oscillating spring whifletree.
No matter how far ahead one horse starts
the spring brings the load equally on both.
IL also relieves horses shoulders from
shocks in crossing railroad tracks. That is
the result of crude idea OF an inventor
worked out by continual experimenting
hat are those twoP'
"One of them is the materialized idea Of
country boy; the other is the invention of
CITY man The country boys is the de-
veioped idea he had put in a crude shape. 1t
VIII now mix butter and sugar for sponge
cake, freeze ice cream, beat eggs and the
IKE end save much time. 1t is novel and
Interesting
DO you bake the sponge cake in tho
Bless you, no. That is a cable road con-
uuit, mace entirely of dense cast iron, in
solld sections. 1t Is put down us easily as
water or gas pipe. All cable roads have
pech built, at great cost, by sections, put
uoWn on iron brackets, filled in with mason